Most artist and intellectuals found in the Mancomunitat an ideal source of support, which was translated in the emergence of the Noucentista movement. Noucentisme was an ideological movement which... typified the hegemonic aspirations of the most active sectors of the Catalan bourgeoisie. Through the creation of its own iconography and a complex corpus of its own iconography and a complex corpus of linguistic signs, it formulated patterns of social behaviour which could facilitate reformist action